{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1518","title":18,"num":"\u00a7\u202f1518.","heading":"Obstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses","text":"\u00a7\u202f1518.\nObstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses\n(a) Whoever willfully prevents, obstructs, misleads, delays or attempts to prevent, obstruct, mislead, or delay the communication of information or records relating to a violation of a Federal health care offense to a criminal investigator shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.\n(b) As used in this section the term \u201ccriminal investigator\u201d means any individual duly authorized by a department, agency, or armed force of the United States to conduct or engage in investigations for prosecutions for violations of health care offenses.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t18/s1518.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1518","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f1518."},{"t":"heading","text":"Obstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1518/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" Whoever willfully prevents, obstructs, misleads, delays or attempts to prevent, obstruct, mislead, or delay the communication of information or records relating to a violation of a Federal health care offense to a criminal investigator shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1518/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"content","text":" As used in this section the term \u201ccriminal investigator\u201d means any individual duly authorized by a department, agency, or armed force of the United States to conduct or engage in investigations for prosecutions for violations of health care offenses.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}